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40060. jexster - 11/11/2008 4:43:10 AM You'll notice after you've cut through the ideological whine ...there isn't a goddamn syllable in that pathetic screed that has to do with the US auto industry 40061. wonkers2 - 11/11/2008 4:43:54 AM anuary 11, 2008 12:39 pm Link
David Barboza’s January 5, 2008 article on the abysmal working conditions in China casts doubt on the legendary benefits of free trade. Why should American workers and Chinese workers be sacrificed on the altar of free trade to fatten the coffers of WalMart and other companies whose factories, or those of their contractors, pay low wages for work in dangerous, unhealthful conditions while polluting the world’s environment? It would not seem unreasonable to expect American companies to bring to their Chinese operations the pollution, industrial safety and hygiene and human resources policies rather than leaving them behind in the United States. It’s illegal under United States law for a U.S. company to bribe a foreign government official but not to maim or poison a foreign worker.
Both the Republican and Democratic parties, while quick to bring intellectual property rights to the trade negotiating table, have not pursued the protection of worker rights with equal vigor. Our trade negotiators (and the New York Times) act as if the introduction of worker rights considerations in trade talks is comparable to putting sand in their Rolexes. If American workers are losing their jobs only for Chinese workers to work in unsafe, unhealthful conditions for abysmally low wages, where are the benefits of free trade”
w2
Birmingham, Michigan
40062. jexster - 11/11/2008 4:45:09 AM We've known ...we've ALL known since the 1970's what the fucking problem is..now we find out that Deetroit put all its marbles in Cadillac Escalades and Lincoln Navigators...now they're saddled with obscene benefits paid to the deadwood that fucked them up and want US to pay for that shit 40063. jexster - 11/11/2008 4:48:22 AM General Motors, Driven to the Brink
GM, like other American automakers, tied its fortunes to the SUV, a product line that may be the industry’s undoing.
Bunglers and rip off artists
Let em fail
40064. jexster - 11/11/2008 4:49:22 AM FYI America....
WalMart doesn't make Toyotas 40065. jexster - 11/11/2008 5:06:49 AM Why should we pay for Honkers and the rest of those Deetroit Moran's elegant dinners at
The Big Rock Chop House
or the manicured lawns of their stately manor homes??
or their Yacht Club cookouts?
 40066. jexster - 11/11/2008 5:13:02 AM At least my Senator's hard at work making sure that hard working patriots don't get jewed ...
WASHINGTON – The senator overseeing Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony said Monday she's writing to Internet sites like eBay asking them not to sell scalped inauguration tickets. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., also said she's crafting a bill that would make a federal crime of selling tickets to the historic event Jan. 20.
Feinstein, who chairs the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, said she foresees overwhelming demand for the 240,000 available tickets and has heard reports they may be sold for as much as $40,000 online 40067. jexster - 11/11/2008 5:23:49 AM This is not amateur hour -- this is not crony time." Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University and an expert on governmental organization, said admiringly, "Obama is extremely well-prepared. There is a lot of talk coming out of the Bush administration about a seamless transition. But in many instances, the Obama people know as much about what is happening in the Cabinet agencies as the Bush people do."
Light guest-lectured an HR seminar I took 40068. jexster - 11/11/2008 5:41:08 AM Toyota Assembly Plant
Indiana
Prius Final Assembly
Note the oppressed worker
 40069. jexster - 11/11/2008 5:43:32 AM Wonkers and Me Trailer
40070. wonkers2 - 11/11/2008 6:17:51 AM Roger Smith was a weasely little prick. 40071. wonkers2 - 11/11/2008 6:18:33 AM So is Lieberman. 40072. jexster - 11/11/2008 6:20:37 AM Obama Asks Bush to Save GM
Will Demand an End to WonkerWelfare in Auto Industry
Bush wants CAFATA in return ....That Giant Sucking Sound you hear is the Failed State of Michigan 40073. David Ehrenstein - 11/11/2008 4:36:40 PM Latest FaBlog: Fait Diver -- Department of "Well, DUH!" 40074. jexster - 11/11/2008 6:39:47 PM Where's Granny?
Arkansas, however, doubled the margin of victory it gave to the Republican over 2004. 40075. jexster - 11/11/2008 6:44:28 PM “I think there are going to be outbreaks from blacks,” she added. “From where I’m from, this is going to give them the right to be more aggressive.”
Tell me about it!
A hip hop gangsta Buck crying "Boorack Boorack" HUGGED me on election night without permission 40076. jexster - 11/11/2008 6:46:28 PM and the outbreak of Obama T-shirts on the buses are not to be believed 40077. jexster - 11/11/2008 7:10:38 PM Mentum Receives Executive Clemency 40078. jexster - 11/11/2008 7:16:30 PM
Ja, wir können
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) says Obama is planning to create a American Gestapo.
"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force. I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may -- may not, I hope not -- but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism. That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did. When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."
 40079. jexster - 11/11/2008 8:16:08 PM Howard Fineman says Shumer and Durbin want to give Mentum the axe
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